![]() ![]() Some footnotes are credited by an initial: ![]() It should therefore be remembered that this is not Pepys’ diary as he wrote it, but a 19th century transcription which has in turn been used to create the electronic Project Gutenberg version. Pepys wrote the bulk of his diary in a shorthand devised by Thomas Shelton, with only a few words, such as names of people and places, written longhand shorthand was more widely used by scholars in Pepys’ time than it is today ( read more about shorthand). This version of the diary is not quite complete - occasional passages are missing - but it is the most complete copyright-free version. The introductory texts of this edition can be found in the Diary Introduction section. This is available copyright free from Project Gutenberg. The text for this diary is taken from the 1893 edition edited by Henry B. ![]()
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